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Sausage-Stuffed Baked Pears with Blue Cheese or Goat Cheese Recipe

This easy and impressive dish makes the best out of breakfast's sweet and savory elements: a ripe pear stuffed with a tasty mélange of breakfast sausage and spices...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pear + goat cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Goat cheese + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Pear + blue cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  5. Pear + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (canola oil, pear, onion, garlic, egg, milk, cinnamon):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against canola oil, pear, onion, garlic, egg, milk, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).